Sussing the Pot Plant

Sussing the Pot Plant

 

The green pot plant

standing

all alone, on the cool

bottom

black step of our new

and still

  

shiny spiral staircase,

appeared

to be moulting along

   with the dog ..

My dear good lady wife

always notices

such things and said, it

was a fine example

of subtropical,

   

variegated weeping fig ..

Then she asked,

if I thought, it may ever

   feel lonely ..

I said, I doubt it, after all,

it’s got the dog

and a view through our

new triple glazed

French windows, across

the garden

into the forest beyond ..

She just smiled,

wiped both of her eyes,

and then,

 

  wept back to the dishes ..

 

Reviews

[Thomas W Case]

This is well-crafted and powerful. Reminds me a bit of William Carlos Williams. Superb, my friend.